One of the most annoying things about creativity, at least if you are
trying to make money out of it, is that it is completely unpredictable.
You can have a brilliant idea instantaneously and you can spend years
pondering the same problem. Ah well, at least it’s nice when the idea
arrives at last.

‘You do not even have to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and
listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be still and
solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has not
choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.’